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Flights / Olga Tokarczuk ; translated by Jennifer Croft.
A seventeenth-century Dutch anatomist discovers the Achilles tendon by dissecting his own amputated leg. Chopin's heart is carried back to Warsaw in secret by his adoring sister. A woman must return to her native Poland in order to poison her terminally ill high school sweetheart, and a young man slowly descends into madness when his wife and child mysteriously vanish during a vacation and just as suddenly reappear. Through these brilliantly imagined characters and stories, interwoven with haunting, playful, and revelatory meditations, Flights explores what it means to be a traveler, a wanderer, a body in motion not only through space but through time. Where are you from? Where are you coming in from? Where are you going? we call to the traveler. Enchanting, unsettling, and wholly original, Flights is a master storyteller's answer.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780525534211
- ISBN: 0525534210
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (403 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Edition: First American edition.
- Publisher: New York City : Penguin Publishing Group 2018.
- Copyright: ©2018
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Includes index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Here I am -- World in your head -- Your head in the world -- Syndrome -- Cabinet of curiosities -- Seeing is knowing -- Seven years of trips -- Guidance from Cioran -- Kunicki: water (I) -- Benedictus, quivenit. |
| Language Note: | Translated from the Polish. |
| Awards Note: | Man Booker International Prize, 2018. |
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| Genre: | Electronic books. Electronic books. Novels. Fiction. Short stories. Novels. |
